Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Real peace goes beyond explanation.

There are no good reasons to believe in god.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.

The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.