We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

One shouldn't envy another person's Destiny!As the fate written for everyone is not the same but surely a good one.

I'm currently single, so I want to have fun! As for what guys need to do to date out of their league, it's all about the swagger. If you have confidence, you can get pretty much any girl.

...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.

I know not whence I came, nor whither I go, nor who I am.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me.

I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.