“I mean to take a good look at any man ere I leap into his arms.'Then look your fill, and leap away.”
“Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.”
“The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.”
“To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.”
“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”