Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

A lot of mothers incorrectly see the meaning of their lives as being the designer or creator of their child’s life

If someone hates you, secretly they are admiring you. They deserve you love and not your hate.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Don't bother about your looks, just bother about your character

Scared, Angel?

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.