“...so i will greet youin a wayall loved thingsare meant to be greetedwith a tear in my heartand a poem in my eye.”

“i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.”

“An animal in pain is the saddest thing on Earth.”

“To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.”

“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”

“the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.”

“Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, whe...”

“In our ever-changing universe, lives collide, and, like runaway planets, we just keep going.”

“your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.”

“She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.”

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

“Nature, too, supports our personal blossoming (if we have any quiet exposure to her) through her spontaneities, through her beauty, power, and mirroring, through her dazzling variety of species and...”

“If you cannot do it without money, its passion exists in unknown galaxies than earth's core.”

“Theres as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”