Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.