Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

Be the person that will take the first step towards personal success. You will be remembered for it.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

Barack Obama knows a lot about a lot of things.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.

We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.