Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

I know that being positive is a choice, and I try to make that choice every day.

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.

If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.