He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

Are you asking me if there is a god?’ he said, still in that soft voice. ‘All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to...

I’ve remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they’re actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that...

You have not traveled enough,” she said. “Or you’d know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good king? Would I be quick witted and generous of spirit...

And you’re not leaving,” she said. “Promise me.”It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have?...

And how is your head? Better?” he asked.”Very much. Sometimes it hurts.” Right now it was throbbing. “But every day I am much improved.””Where did you hit it? Are you bruised?”I put a hand to...

You can hardly walk up to complete strangers and say, “Good for you! You’ve risked banishment and brutality and ostracism just to be together, and I applaud your choice! You’re in the vanguard of social...

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

If mankind’s greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

I was Amazement–I was Desire–I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.