Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence

I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.