...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

My soul will always find its way to yours because home is where the heart is.

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?