Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

The sea has its moods. Sometimes it is melancholic and morose, other times fierce and feisty. But always passionate. Even when calm, one can sense the depth of the sea’s passion

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

When you're in nature, inevitably your video is going to involve nature.

Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.

A country girl can talk her way out of a ticket.

There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.