It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

Silence is the most expensive to buy.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Who wants to live forever?

Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.