She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Music gives strength to the spirit.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

The Americans' position is clear: we promote democracy.

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.