And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.
In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.
So much of life is what you roll and where you land.
I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.
It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.
Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.