ordered me a sky from a florist

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

When we appreciate a flower, we are really appreciating the beauty of our amazing minds.

Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.

Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

Anyway, The Snack really helps me to understand that death is a part of our life. There is life, and there is darkness, always together.

That just sends the wrong message to everybody. [Donald Trump] should have the least amount of air time.

We're the last billionth of a second in the evolution of matter.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

It's pain that changes our lives.