Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

No bikinis on a first date.” He nods. “I’m sure that’s a rule. Or should be. For my sisters anyway.

May you find grace to accomplish your God given-goals.

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.