And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
We pretend to be strong because we are weak.
I loved watching theatre, and film, and television. It was a fantastic outlet and my favourite thing to do. I can't remember the decision. It just felt like a completely natural thing. . . I just completely felt drawn into it and seduced by it all. I found myself going into it.
But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
I was an athlete when I was growing up.