We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

It's a great feeling to have the stadium rocking and chanting my name.

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun." "Fun" she said unhappily. "Blue elephants." "Blue elephants." "Kiss me you fool." "You fool.