I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

The landscapist lives in silence.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.