The wooden hairbrush has two practical uses, the bristle side to be used on her silken locks, and the harsh, wooden side to be used on her shapely seat of learning

Just as a woman's eyes are the mirrors of her soul, her shapely bottom is her seat of learning.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Things that are easy to do, are easy not to do.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Believe me when I tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I was just getting out of a shootaround in Milwaukee when I found out. I took out my insoles (from my shoes) and I was out of there.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.