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“Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls”
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“We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.”
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“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”
Source : "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.
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“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”
Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.
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“In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.”
Source : William Strunk, Jr. (1972). “The Elements of Style”
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“The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.”
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“She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.”
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“Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.”