I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Love makes us do wicked things.

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

Let's not imitate others.Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.