Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

You make every case for marriage but love.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either.""Then you're doing it wrong.

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

Stupidity isn't the only thing humans carry inside of them. I'll show you that we also have the power to purify.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.

My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.