The emotion she could deal with best was anger.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

My mom said there's a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals).

Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.