Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Science is based not on faith but in skeptism

When one is in love one thinks only of one.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.