Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

I work mornings only. I go out to lunch. Afternoons I play with the baby, walk with my husband, or shovel mail.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.