Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

The spirit of gratitude brings out the true beauty of life.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I could have stayed home and been kept by my wife.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.

America needs rebooting.