Overnight I became a cottage industry.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.

Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

When one clings to the myth of superiority one must constantly overlook the virtues and abilities of others.

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people.

Emotions are wild horses.

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.