The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.- Susan Taylor--Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.