She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.

My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.

People dumber than you are making a fortune.

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent.

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule.

I definitely think there is a shift happening right now in terms of visibility, but there's still a choice you make as a public figure on what to do or how to present your sexuality.

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

Pressure is trying to make a putt for a $10 bet with only $5 in your pocket.

One of the most powerful ways to keep people controlled is to use faith or guns or both.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.