“Wasting talent is a sin. Im not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. Im not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. Its just not courteous...”

“All the men I know add that hands that prepared it line. They must know its right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.”

“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you cant remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday ...”

“Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins.”

“Im serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.”

“I was that kind of tired you feel when youve spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being t...”

“Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.”

“Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.”

“Choose your love. Love your choice.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”