Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The curse of sin is nullify by the blood of Jesus Christ.

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.

I never learned the secret handshake. That may be one of the reasons I've grown to love English soccer.