Really, nobody was there?” I asked.“Well, nobody important, ” he said, putting his glasses back on and blinking.

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street’s burn.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

Nobody objected to live in prisonif already felt comfortable living in it.

Be an ordinary person with extraordinary heart

I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

Jealousy will drive you mad.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.