“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
“Like George W. Bush, some people are born on third base and think they’ve hit a triple.”
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible God.”
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only
from the vantage point of distance.”
“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”