"Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need."

“I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.”

“God only knows what else is on the web about me.”

“There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2007). “The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, Algonquin Books

“The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

“Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.”

“Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.”

“Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.”

“It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”