That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Wishful thinking will not take you to your destiny.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!

Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.