You know," Cecily said, "you really didn't have to throw that man through the window." "He wasn't a man," Gabriel said, scowling. "He was an Unseelie Court faerie. One of the nasty ones." "Is that why you chased him down the street?" "He had no busin...
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.
...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.
She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.
Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly ...
SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts of fire. Charge somber thoughts With unexpected flash, You, my lightning in the soil!
I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ ]
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard." [ ]
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, And fill all fruit with rip...
Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment
Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them. That's what is most important if you want to be free: respect for and exasperation with boundaries.
We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
I stare at the beauty that comes automatically bundled and unappreciated with youth. I can’t be this anymore.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son...
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integra...
