And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

God appreciates ordinary people

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

I opened my Eyes one day and noticed that the world is full of beautiful girls.

I am not against a little inflation.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.