Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much more like vacations, more exciting and different, and you're off.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.