By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable.

If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.