I've never taken a photograph of someone and created a persona, I've just discovered what was already there.

-I'm your girlfriend?- "No." Alexei shakes his head, then pulls me to him again, holds me closer. "There's not a word in either of our language for what you are to me".

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family.

We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us

I forgive, ” Penny said. “But I don’t forget. I’ll remember the kind of gum you were chewing when you did me wrong.

The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

Could hate a person, but in fact it's not worth it. Never know how long you've got on this earth, kid.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.