The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

It's engrained in us by society not to love ourselves..

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living..

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other..

If you love language, it will love you back..

I loved you ere I knew you; know you now, And having known you, love you better still..

Words, however, are things..

You may be old, you may be in your third act, but you can still be vital and sexual and funny. Life isn't over..

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith..

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!.

There seemed nothing to do but live..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was ….

Faith must be worked at..

You're really playing against yourself. You have to learn what you can control and what you can't, and not let what you can't control affect your con….

I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! ….

Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any t….

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts..

The public is always right..