Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.