I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.

Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

I reached into my pocket and triumphantly flashed the CR-V keys Iʹd swiped when weʹd come back inside. ʺThe driver,ʺ I said. I DIDNʹT GET TO DRIVE.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.