These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
I'm afraid my glass is no longer half full because I drank most of it.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.
I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.
We all have the right to be wrong and be loved just the same.
I have my own worries and concerns and frustrations, but I'm doing something I love to do. My wife and kids are in good shape. What is there not to be happy about?
Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.
The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.
The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.