Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

I certainly don’t have any interest in being on a dark veranda with any man except my husband, unlike some women do.” - Esther Norman

If you cannot predict the betrayal from the ones that you love and trust the most, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

Aww don't feel noways tired. I've come too faarrrrr from where I started frum.

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself.