“… who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?”

“A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.”

“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”

“The word experiment derives from 'experimentum' - that which has been experienced and what, for the writer, has been experienced is the work of his great predecessors”

“It is, in other words, time for a national oil change. That is apparent to anyone who has looked at our national dipstick.”

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

“The goons needed some comic relief, and I needed an audience. I had found my niche.”

“It's time to testify
It's time to cry all the the tears
I've kept inside
kept inside
It's time to testify
It's time to cry all the tears”

“The pain which has passed away has been spent up by experience. It cannot, therefore, fall within the sphere of avoidable. And that which is present, is being experienced at the time of its existence; it cannot, therefore, be considered as the avoidable with reference to the future movement of time. Hence that pain alone which has not yet been experienced, troubles the Yogi who is sensitive as the eye-ball; it does not trouble any other knower. Hence that alone is avoidable pain.”

“Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.”