There is safety in numbness– there is solace in sleep.

I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind.They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholesLess than themselves.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

We are seeking to avoid a new Cold War, avoid a new arms race, and, therefore, we continue to work for a more constructive relationship with Russia, including political dialogue with Russia.

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.