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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

Light is the task where many share the toil.

You don't always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

This idea that light plays an important part in our life is important to me.

I like things bright.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.