"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques."

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

"You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends."