The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

The worst losses come at night.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.