And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Let your heart be filled with passionate love that compelled Christ to give his life to you

Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

In order to be an economist these days, you have to participate in this fairytale that somehow we can recover and still make the banks rich. And it is a fairytale.

He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.