Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started meeting people and talking to them, and the more I heard the stories, the more red flags kept popping up. There was this disconnect between this person [Todd Willingham] that I'm reading in the court records, the prosecutor's statements, and this person that I'm learning about.

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.