To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

Dip your fingers n the spring stream or lift your face to the summer rains. Listen for me in the winter wind I'll come back for you.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.