True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.