It wasn't that she lit up, but that everything else seemed to dim. Things he thought were important or bright turned out not to be when she was around, when they were held up against her glow.

I can tell she’s upset, but I can’t be bothered to say anything. Some days are just like that.

The writer sat besides the weeping Gilgamesh, swam out of all the unsinkable ships sank. He was there, and he wasn't. Like a naturalist observing the tarn of life from an unseen bubble of neutrality.

When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

I find no abhorring in my appetite.

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting.