Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

...You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

When I design menswear, it is important for me to consider where you wear the clothes and what purpose they serve.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Any power, of course, depends upon the values of the person exercising the power.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.