To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

He who does not travel, who does not read, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself, she who does not find grace in herself, dies slowly.

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life

Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.

...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion.

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.