The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

To toy with something is to manipulate it, to try it out within sets of contexts none of which is determinate.

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. Its not sustainable in ecological terms, and its not sustainable in human terms.

Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.