The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."... So, what breaks your heart?

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island.

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

Enemies strike at weak points.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant. His life was a blessing.