As long as one suffers one lives.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

God sees the workplace of some people as a mission field, where they are to fulfill their calling

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?