...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Reinforce your positive thoughts and Redirect to the substantial energy of your frustration.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.