Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”-Cedric Diggory-

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

When the beauty and warmth of summer is here, then dancing leaves with colors are not too far.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.