Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

Truth... has no obligation to console you.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.

What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.