He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

Genevieve Gorder

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

William S. Burroughs

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Alice Walker

A smile is the universal welcome.

Max Eastman

If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.

Patrick Dempsey

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Pandora Poikilos

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Thomas Fuller

When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.

Jodi Picoult

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

John Steinbeck

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Roland Barthes