Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?