I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I can only imagine how happy life would be if we could stay so grounded in our faith that we would never waver in our positive attitudes.

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

A fart in the face is love.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

I have butterflies in my stomach.