“We may think that we love certain people, but we don’t know how profoundly we love them.”

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

We all love and become confused when we don’t act as well as we would like to.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

I was sitting on my own in a restaurant, when I saw a beautiful woman at another table.

I sent her a bottle of the most expensive wine on the menu. She sent me a note: “I will not touch a drop of this wine unless you can assure me that you have seven inches in your pants. ” So I wrote back: “Give me the wine. As gorgeous as you are, I’m not cutting off three inches for anyone.

We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.

My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable.

I don’t take anything personal. I just have a certain file in my head, so Earthlings must be careful with what they say.

We are more than just flesh and bones. There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.