I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them.—Ditta

Without the love of a woman, it is impossible to have a manly world.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.