I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.