There could never be innocence in a world without justice.

Days, weeks, months, years, " said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out!

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.