. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating.

It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.

[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

Just as God expressed his great love by giving his son to die for our redemption, so we will express our love for God by giving to others

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Conservatism is the politics of reality