The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.

The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others.

It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.