Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Life, life.

Then again, I was never any good at plumbing the depths of a woman's heart.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

I always have to go that extra mile, and I do it and I don't mind doing it, but it isn't fair.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.