One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the spirit with which matter is informed.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.