Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!
It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.
We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.
A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.