It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.

For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.

When you don’t crave increase, you become a mystery

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

If you are fully aware in the moment, there is only love.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art.

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.