The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

[David Boreanaz]'s got a very, very cute little giggle.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

I lived at home till I was 29.

The American people - Republican voters especially - are fed up with the status quo.

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.