The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

I like the sound of 'claps of no sound..

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.