when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

The object of war is to survive it.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.