As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.

Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.

The important things for a mom is that her kids are watched, and are safe and it's a good care environment.

You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

The key to security is public information.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are