There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.