What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.
We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
