You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

Maybe Life is random. No fate. No God. Just Time.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to open up her mirror and apply lipstick

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.