We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Healthy home, healthy life.

I know, I know. I rescued him and he’s bonded to me like a baby duck.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

You can get in touch with your intuition simply by asking yourself what your soul longs for you to do, be and have – that’s it! No woo woo instruction required!

I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.