Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Love makes us do wicked things.

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.