We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

Is it possible to love someone so completely, so intensely, they could never die? To give them more than just your heart or your soul? What if you could give then the miracle of immortality?

If someone tells you it can't be done. Smile and humbly agree. Then go back and work so hard that you can prove them wrong equally as fast.

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

Presidents don't have power. Their job is to draw attention away from it.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

A startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery.