I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Love is a spendthrift leaves its arithmetic at home is always 'in the red'.

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.

Bernie Sanders is all about being humane and loving to each other.