You learn to move on without the people you love.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

The dream that wakened me pushed at the veil of consciousness but could not burst through, and I was left wondering what I had known just a moment before.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

It was a pretty good year for predators.

I'm at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock.

We're going to rush the hijackers.

Everything ends eventually. I guess that's what makes summer so intense, this feeling that it lasts for only a a short while and then it's back to reality.

I'm the audience's representative on earth.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.