I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

If you'd bothered to ask me, Clark, if you'd bothered to consult me just once about this so-called fun outing of ours, I could have told you. I hate horses, and horse racing. Always have. But you didn't bother to ask me. You decided what you thought you'd like me to do, and you went ahead and did it. You did what everyone else does. You decided for me.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.