I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.