Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

Her suspense was terrible.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

A weak mind complains about everything and loves nothing. A strong mind complains about nothing and loves everything.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Being picked for the Pro Bowl is a feeling I can't describe. I never thought I'd be out here as a rookie, so it's great.

It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I'm finding that I'm enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show.

Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.