There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

By nature you are a manifesting machine!

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don’t, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.