If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

I've never been tempted by God but I like his trappings.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.