Life

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and white and too pretty to trigger a shiver. Anna's voice had the heat of the south; it warmed Einar, as if her throat were read with coals.

If there are patterns of bound emotions then life will bring that to the surface as often as is needed for all feelings to now come and go naturally without any personal sense to them.

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

Yesterday is a cancelled check tomorrow is a promissory note today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely.

Just enjoy the music of life.

Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts?

Social media... It's the future for the new generation.

Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.