Life

We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Can't even feel dissapointed when seeingheaven ain't as wonderful as ever expected.

In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life’s primary virtues.

Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

War on Everyone,' I think... The script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

She didn’t sound overjoyed. She didn’t sound even slightly joyed.

Most people think the closet is a small room. They think you can touch the walls, touch the door, turn the handle, and walk free. But when you're inside it, the closet is vast. No walls, no door, just empty darkness stretching the length of the world.

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.

If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something.

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

What do I wish I could be doing if money or status were not an issue?

The reason you were born is for a purpose.