Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Albert Einstein

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

Dan Savage

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Henry George

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully.

Anon.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Laura Miller

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.

Cyril Connolly

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Elie Wiesel