The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing.

Hope lights up our darkness.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Rose pivoted. “Alainn, can I ask you something about ethics?” Alainn nodded, slowly. “Sure.” Rose’s inhuman eyes met hers, and she asked, “Would you die to save a million people?

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.