Pastoral Resources

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Some studies show that women can be better money managers than men because they tend to be more conservative and do their homework. Men tend to take more risks without the research.