The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.

Life would be a darned sight simpler if feelings were as easy to patch up as a piece of sailcloth.

You see?" The Father whispered as the boy passed without meeting their eyes. "You shouldn't feel ashamed of your problem. Your life experiences oftentimes is the same as someone else's.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

I think they have compatible silences.

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

I've not had a mean life.