Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.