From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.