There are those who dance the notes and those who dance the music.

When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

But she had to know words. She had to know everything.

It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this i cannot bear to witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home.

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.

I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.