What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.