I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.

life ain't fair. It's always slightly one sided

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.

At some point you're like, gosh, this rehab is never going to end, and then all of a sudden I'm full strength and I'm about to go to my first competition. So I feel really great.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.