And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Would I rather be dental floss or a toothbrush? is that a question? Um, I would actually rather be floss, I think, if I was using me. Because I don't really floss enough.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.