One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.

Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.

Corn wind in the fall, come off the black lands, come off the whisper of the silk hangers, the lap of the flat spear leaves.

I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.