And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.

The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.

... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the ones in between that test you. They're the ones that bring questions with them.

That paper--it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.

You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.

Why won’t you help me?
You have to able to manage on your own.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Maybe it's the stardust in my head.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.