Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.

Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Families without songs are unhappy families.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.