I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen. '
I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people
Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.
It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.
Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.
. . . and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.