Ram wanted to marry a woman in front of whom he would be compelled to bow his head in admiration. P.210

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

Draughtsmen may be made, but colourists are born.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.