Grace only exists to be fallen from.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Our nature gives us purpose, to reflect and act upon, responsibly by choice.

I felt the tears streak down my cheeks but I wasn't crying.

I was drinking in the surroundings: air so crisp you could snap it with your fingers and greens in every lush shade imaginable offset by autumnal flashes of red and yellow.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.