Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas

You know, there's a reason we can remember, " [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when your life has an expiration date.""It may be more important for us.

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.