You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

Those with open hearts always have open hands.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

the windy sky Cries out a literate despair.