I write plays about big, intense subjects.
1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. 2) An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occu...
She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of living into a single day: to live more, to more, in the span of twenty-four hours than most did in eighty years. Shape-shifters lived i...
Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took moder...
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to b...
To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic [...] or homosexual love that intense, that penetratin...
If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Sim...
she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it,...
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship
An intense life needs a touch of madness.
For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.
I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
When works get too intellectual, they lose their intensity.
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.
