Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.