She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.

If sleep wasn't necessary, I would have used those 8 hours just to gaze at you.

You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door.

So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

If we're friends with someone and attracted to them, we're going to want to take it further.

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?