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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. ”
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter. ”
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees. ”
I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first. ”
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ”
Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself. ”
I just came home one day and, in a midlife-crisis sort of way, I told my wife, 'I'm going to run a marathon,' not really understanding what that was. Then I just kind of got into it, and now that I have been running pretty consistently over the past few years, I don't know if it's because I love it or because I hate myself. I just really enjoy it. ”
When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy story. ”
Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you. ”
Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger. ”