When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.