Men demand much more than you think, " she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

I let myself relax into the pattern of the recipe.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

I want somebody who's gonna need me.

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.