...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

...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.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!

Equality for women is progress for all.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.