What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.

Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.

Energy is the ultimate convertable currency.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just a lot more liberated.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

All soils are not fertile.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring." I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?" "No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.