Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want.

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

I remember one of the legendary German broadcasters saying, "Germany's future is America's present," and it really was that with the penetration of television.

Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

Love is eternal while it lasts.