Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

Leave it to women to be cryptic rather than straightforward

When you think yourself as nothing, Then something important will begin

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

Tell me what it is, or prepare to eat harpoon.

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.