People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
Approfondement is a French word that means ‘playing easily in the deep.’
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
You are what you think you eat.
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims.
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it’s a costly mistake to spread it too thin.
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.
There’s birth, there’s death, and in between there’s maintenance.
Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.