It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

Oh, merciless freedom, you continue to overwhelm me! You demand that I challenge myself and feel ashamed, and yet continue to feel so outrageously proud to live a life full of my desires.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Time. It rubs the rough edges that hurt us smooth.

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

I wanted to be his dear, his darling.

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

Your people come first, and if you treat them right, they'll treat the customers right.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.