I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.” “And now you do?” she asked hesitantly.“Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film).

If you want to do something, you find a way.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.