And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears,  but it’s as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.

But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of the soul, body and pride of man?

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.