Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

New birth, new blessings.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication.

In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.