Have the courage to live... Anyone can die.

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything" - Laney

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.

I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

If you want to hear God speak, read your Bible. If you want to hear God speak audibly, read your Bible out loud.

One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.

The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.

A man can never compete with a woman's father

It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.