Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

All thinking men are atheists.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell, " I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good, " I said. "That's what I want too.

Don’t try to smell the flowers without planting them.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.