We read to know we're not alone.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

I used to only write poetry

If you really want to know me, I said, we'll have to start with the witches.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

The guy [Bill Clinton] was a known, let's say, "raconteur."