There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

Co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.