There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.

Rory did not want her. After devoting so much effort to avoid being wed to a man she did not want, she found herself bound to a man who did not want her.

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!