There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ground. Probably is a word that you may find south of the border. But never, ever west of the sun.

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.

It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she was gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this tar, and you can't come back.

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It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.

Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wise.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.