Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.

A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin it should make you jump up and do something.

Structural work is only a bandage unless feelings have been healed.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

My need for true love isn't so important now. The important thing is to lead a life where no one can wound me anymore.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.