I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy. Children of Ankh series

Are you waiting for the approval of someone else before you make your big move? If you are, chances are they’ve already made it.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

I just sing what I'm feeling at the time and hope my fans will like that and appreciate that.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

This thing called thinking, just as you think of it, the more you think of it, the best thinking can be NOT to think of it.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.