I do like the world quite a lot.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk. I sing all day and I don’t mind the washing, and that’s how I know I’m in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.