It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.

When you understand that everything you buy is purchased with a portion of your life, it should make you more careful with the use of money.

Your true intentions is a reflection of your character.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.