We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

the heart is an organ of fire

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.