Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.

Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

She misses him more now than when he was away

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players.