But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.

But how right is it to kill a man for something that is in his soul?

Pity, unlike hate, can be boxed and put away.

Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

What are we all chasing? Nella wonders. To live, of course. To be unbound from the invisible ropes that Johannes spoke of in his study. Or to be happy in them, at least.

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

You are a stone, thrown upon a lake. But the ripples you create will never make you still.

This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

Sister?” Jessie Kay scowled. “Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.

When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.