Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.

You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.