Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

I'm more interested in the games than the people.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once

Every Christian who does not study, really study, the Bible every day is a fool.

The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.