When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.

And when he kisses me it feels a bit like fear and tastes a bit like tears,  but it’s as bright and sweet as sherbet, and I decide to call it joy.

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.

In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

The hand that gives, gathers.

I'm very focused on projects that help people, not just help me.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.