Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.

Sophie knew about power animals, everyone did...Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.

...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

And when I stand in the receiving linelike Jackie Kennedywithout the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken enough Klonopinto still an ox, and you w

The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.

I was once asked what it takes to be a great manager...my response? Great players.

The Light of Christ illumines all.

And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love,that trust.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.