She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

I am all that there is of the most real.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.