The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Anybody who's against birth control and abortion has to be a criminal idiot.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.

Even a tourist can tell in a Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities. In Rome to go out is to go home.

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines.

Our fantasies are our realities in an excuse-free world.

Serving people with love and compassion is the best way to bring them to Christ

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance

I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action.

Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

I mean, what good is a women's lib if we can't use it to ask guys to dances?

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.