Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually holding our breath. You can only do it for so long.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

I'm not gonna change my way of dance because I lost and the judge tells me I should do it a certain way.

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.