You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Overnight I became a cottage industry.

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.

True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion’s call.

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

No one here gets out alive.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!

Be yourself, be brave.

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.