In America, everything is big and more like a jungle.
If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.
In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.
Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.