Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

We create what we live. We live what we create.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

The canary is like a man's soul. It sees bars around it, but instead of despairing, it sings.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.