The shortest distance between two points is always under construction.

To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally, these are questionsfor philosophy, but philosophy is dead

Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)

No denial of the truth will ever invalidate it.

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sortsof difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.