I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.
Love is the color of red inverted. At least that’s what Gunnar Greenlove told me, and I believe him because he’s from an island where half the people tell only the truth and half tell only lies. Not only that, but the island has a population of t...
When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitu...
Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature’s nudist...
The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone. Later, as these island...
When desertion is not an option, sabotage is a must.
It's a city where everbody mutinies but no one deserts.
I've been very supportive of the Islanders. I'm at every home opener.
My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
Foulfellow: [he and Gideon have "diagnosed" Pinocchio's "condition"] My boy, you are *allergic.* Pinocchio: Allergic? Foulfellow: Yes, and there is only one cure: a vacation on Pleasure Island! Pinocchio: Pleasure Island? Foulfellow: Yes! [ge and Gid...
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
A desert is a place without expectation.
New York is the great stone desert.
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
If you want water, do not go to desert...
The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.
I grew up on a tiny little island.
I will not negotiate with the undead!
No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.
