I need to tell you a story.'What

Hopes are so well constructed, so monstrously dashed!

You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without p

I need to tell you a story, a tale of fate and emergence.

Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two and it amazed and delighted, causing a stir in the pit of him, a kind of fibrillation.

If we dare the difficult, we shall find the depth of being.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Just take my hand &let us dance under a chandelier of starlight.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

We've got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.

You should make great things, not promising great things.

What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.