I am not a monster, I am just a man.
The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.
He talked and talked because he didn't know what to say.
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.
A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.
While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.
The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
You grew old first not in your own eyes, but in other people's eyes; then, slowly, you agreed with their opinion of you.