There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

Each and every day had its challenges.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!

A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer’s loyalty and trust.