Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life.

Frustration is not a work plan.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.