Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.

Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

It's good (Michelle Malkin's) in D.C. and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her.

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

There's a bit of the kid in me.

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.