True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

Freedom runs faster than a Samoan cop that’s been paid to run. Freedom always run faster.

In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.

Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

There is a difference between giving into something and accepting it.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.