I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.