Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

There's just so much to live for.

The answer to most prayers is no.

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Here I am where I ought to be.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.