(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.

With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, "I'm the one you have to watch out for.

Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Sloth is all passions the most powerful.