Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it

Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you?

We all marveled that we'd gotten to take part in so perfect and courageous and amazing a life.

I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.

God, I love John Cassavetes.

Cuban public is special - they participate, generate a lot of energy, both in a positive and negative sense. It's always an expressive audience.

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy

Suckas on my jock when I walk down the block, I really don't care if you're jealous or not.

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.