She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Centuries had passed since the dawn of science, yet men offer riches in the name of God.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

I love the 80s. I always used to watch that VH1 show, 'I Love the 80s,' nonstop. I love the 80s, everything about it, the clothes, the music. Especially the music. The music is so happy. It's great.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.