There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

There is a world inside the world.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.

I'm as clean as the days are long.

You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Because I have so much life on my pitches, I can get away with getting too much of the plate every now and then.

So, blind to Someone I must be.