Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

The soul is awakened through service.

Anger is disappointed hope.

Because I loved myself, I was loved.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

I look forward and see myself look back.

In loving life you love what can't survive.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Conflict is the soul of literature.