I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

You cannot fix what you will not face.

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.