I don’t know what circumstances occurred in your life for you to build such a strong brick wall around your heart, but I do intend to tear it down." ~Cole

When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.