We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

I'm getting more and more comfortable out on the golf course with the changes I've been making. It's really just a confidence thing in that I love being in contention.