At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Respect means: even in your absence people speak good of your person

Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.

(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)