Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.