Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars

Life will forgive mistakes - Life will not forgive indecision ... Do SOMETHING, take a step.

Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.