Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Trust means that they will never throw our pain and vulnerabilities in our face. Trust means we know they will protect us and our innermost thoughts and shared feelings without question.

Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.

I think 'Gasland' is the doorway for a lot of people to see something happening in their backyard and realize the national and global implications.

No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record.

Life begins at eighty.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.