When you're not sure your anger is justified, the thing to do is ask yourself exactly where it's coming from.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Anger is one of those emotions that doesn't follow the letter of the law. It speaks before it thinks. It rears up on its hind legs and charges.

I was lost for too longbut when i found you, i could feel it in my bones.You were my home.

Life is the greatest gift.

Trees are responsible for 3/4 of all rains

They confused beauty with innocence and harmlessness.

For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.