Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.
New Zealand is a place where you can get well.
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough. . . or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.
Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.
I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.
It's ridiculous, but it's horrible going bald. Anyone who says it isn't is lying.
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
Hey, Dad, you’ve got to taste what we just did. It’s actually good. (Omari) That is good. What did you two do? (Devyn) No idea. We just added spices until it didn’t suck anymore. (Omari)
When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.
Trouble looms when monogamy is no longer a free expression of loyalty but a form of enforced compliance.