There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.