She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.)

Time passed: the mind rebuilds it's defenses.

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

Plans are things that change.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.