October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Love makes us do wicked things.

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.

Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.

Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

The more a human being feels himself a self tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

I feel it when I need to train and I do what I feel like I need to do. I don't get obsessed with one style or one skill.

Perfect retention. I dont think I could do that-Ive never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.