What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

...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.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue.Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature.

It's hard to imagine hate that I am facing from allover the world yet I am not alone with mistakes.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.