There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it.

Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?