Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

A sky full of starsand he was staring at her. —ATTICUS

We're stronger than we think.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.