In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living. ☥

Hatred and food were served up in equal proportions at the Connor dining table as he was growing up.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

We were very fortunate, because we had so many hits, so we'd be singing out all hits.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?