How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

I can't give money away to buy listeners. I can't pay listeners off with phones or food stamps or anything. I can't come by my audience by buying it.

The last thing Texas women need in their lives is Greg Abbott.