You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.

I cried at my son's sports day, for God's sake. I'm a huge baby

I do think women generally are more humble.

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.