Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.