What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".

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.

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.

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.

Negative self-talk and negative affirmation can keep you anchored in old thought patterns and identities.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.

I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.