You won't be able to hurt me, or touch me.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.

Don't incriminate yourself. You got the Twitter. I hate twitter. It should be some exclusivity.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.