For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

Ideally, both members of a couple in love free each other to new and different worlds.

No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

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.