To sing is to bring to the surface all the depth of one’s being.
We are closest to real knowledge when we are closest to understanding our own bodies.
Do something unconventional and they call it depravity.
Where there is the will to believe it is incredible what people will believe.
One of the oddest things about humans is how they can love or hate someone they don’t even know.
The stupidest thing: tradition.
Someone who writes aphorisms shouldn’t pretend to be competing with Dante or Sophocles.
The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.
We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can’t remember where they are.
The great thing a friend can do is bring some warmth in this cold world.
Lies can’t get very far on their own. That’s why the internet was invented.
We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.
When the romance ends, love begins.
By the time dying gets through with you you’re glad to be through with it.
The innocence I speak of comes with experience.
Writing is a lot easier if you don’t care about reality.
Marriage: a poetic ideal, a prosaic reality.
Beauty is the desire for beauty.
The world is so big and brains are so small.
A forecast can be wrong, but not the weather.