Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.