"I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was."

“Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.”

“You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “My Year of Meats”, p.261, Canongate Books

“My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.”

“One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.”

“Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.”

Source : Louis Auchincloss (2002). “The Rector of Justin”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”

Source : "De L'Amour" (On Love) by Stendhal, (Ch. 17, footnote), 1822.

“People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.”

“A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.”

Source : "'A Death In Summer' Starts With A Mysterious Suicide". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 2, 2011.