I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

People don't define you by what you frequently tell them, but by what you consistently show them.

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.