There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

The coding was anachronistic, kind of like bokeh in a renaissance painting.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

I always end up hurting myself doing something mundane. If I have to do some complicated stunt, I'm fine.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.