The city was radiant and I felt untouchable.

Girls, now, they wear leggings. As pants. It's embarrassing. Just parading their coochies around town.

Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

When the truffles arrived the paintings leaned off the wall toward them.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

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He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

Sifting through scattered memories is like sifting through sand. Some remain, some simply slipaway…– TARA

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

The world isn't ready for what I have to say.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.