You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

...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.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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.

Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.

You’re a terrible woman Nox, but by the stars I love you beyond words themselves,

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

Don't place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.

The Democrats are now an upscale party.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.