A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia ― Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.

Character builds on characters. Very few recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.

Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.