I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable, " said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.

Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

I often think we should have tattooed on the back of whatever hand we use to shoot or write, 'I might be wrong.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

I am taking the applause sign home, putting it in the bedroom.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.