“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”

“Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.”

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”

“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”

“I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.”

“Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.”

“I have no idea why this is. I’m sure somebody with a beard and too much time on their hands would say it has something to do with sex - but they’ll say that about anything.”