When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.