We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.

Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

AdiosHer pretty picturelying on theground was likethe topplingof somefascistregimeAnd burningthe photograph, was thecelebration

Friends are sometimes the only thing that keep us from plunging into the abyss. But you have to reach for them, and they have to be there on the other side of the cliff reaching out to you too.

I want to wake up ev­ery day I have left to the warmth of your lips on mine, the sound of your voice singing next to me, the feel of your fin­gers on my skin and your heart beat­ing mu­sic with mine.

Men do recognise at last that a supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration.

My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.

Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

On the day that your mentality Decides to catch up with your biology, Come 'round