Quotes from Robert James Waller

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable

When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

He was an animal. A graceful, hard, male animal who did nothing overtly to dominate her yet dominated her completely, in the exact way she wanted that to happen at this moment.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

You make pictures, not take them? Yes. At least that's how I think of it. That's the difference between Sunday snapshooters and someone who does it for a living... I don't just take things as given, I try to make them into something that reflects my personal consciousness, my spirit. I try to find the poetry in the image.

Eventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness

Something I've never been able to adapt to, to understand is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter. I don't dare say anything about it, though. Richard and his friends would be down on me in a flash. But there's some kind of cold, unfeeling contradiction in that business.

This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.