The current version of. . . separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.
All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.
When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is.
People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be in a body - even this old beat-up carcass - that still has warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!
God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you don’t know where to turn, then turn to me. When you’re ready to throw up your hands - throw them up to me. Put your voice behind them too, and I’ll come and help you.
Nothing, says Longinus, can be great, the contempt of which is great.
Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does.
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?
I have a Volvo S60R and its a pretty fast car, the R says it all.
What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.
When someone says to me "I want to be enlightened. " I immediately take a vacation because I know that the person isn't serious. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment
I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old. . . As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times. ' But I would not change my career. . . While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
On daughter Apple's accent: She says Mummy instead of Mommy, I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying basil and pasta the English way, as that really drives me nuts.
When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?