The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

We waddled through life blindly, hoping to find something—and someone—worth fighting for.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.

Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.