Love was certainly not safe - not ever.
Jenny Fields discovered that you got more respect from shocking other people than you got from trying to live your own life with a little privacy.
If you think you are capable of living without writing, do not write,
I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed
Did the rhythm of the train on the tracks somehow unravel her and make her behave out of character? Was she altered in transit, when her feet were not upon the ground?
But this is what we do: we dream on, and our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them. That's what happens, like it or not. And because that is what happens, this is what we need: we...
As for my faith: I've become my father's son-that is, I've become the kind of believer that Pastor Merrill used to be. Doubt one minute, faith the next-sometimes inspired, sometimes in despair. Canon...
Ad majorem Dei gloriam—to the greater glory of God.
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
Book is always in motion – from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading
You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper? Homer asked Angel.Right, said Angel Wells. Well, I got very good--at helping him, Homer said. Very good. I'm not an amateur
You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer! Miss Frost said. It's not a career choice.
When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.
When he and Wally stopped laughing, Homer said, ‘I’ve never seen the ocean, you know.’‘Candy, did you hear that?’ Wally asked, but Candy had released herself with her brief laughter and she was sound...
What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?
What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress h...
We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean-- make sure they know what they mean!