Power. It's all about that, don't you forget. People want money or power.

...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

It was the most perfect moment in my life.It was the last perfect moment in my life.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

We become happier by advancing our understanding of life and by finding its endless beauty.

And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.