I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.