...You deserve to be happy. What can I do?" Don't send me away, I thought. He looked at me again. "What do you want?" "I want to taste an apple," I said. And your lips, I thought.

That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

I would do anything to stay beside you forever.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.

Your mind will never lose anything forever that's worth keeping.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

Like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

It´s hard to have you with me but not to be able to take your hand or kiss you -James

Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

i would court you with passion, if things were different. you'd never get me off your porch swing.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

lies can run but they can’t hide

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

With every record, there's something you realize about it after the process is done. And you know that's almost always the case.

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini.

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.