M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

It isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart. —Unknown

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep,my only love.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.