Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

I like to talk about things when it pertains to a band. I like to talk about things that matter and music.

I have been for border security for years. I voted for border security in the United States Senate. And my comprehensive immigration reform plan of course includes border security.

Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent.

If you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

I've mainly been sampling jazz because the tone of the chords are expressive in itself, so it's quite nice to write over.

The process is the most beautiful part.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.