Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

The breeze and the dew make tranquil the clear dawn; Behind the curtain there is one who alone is up betimes. The orioles sing and the flowers smile - Whose then, after all, is the Spring?

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

Heart’s fragrance is spent with the ending of springAnd nothing left but a tear-stained robe.

Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.

The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.

Fine. Somebody else can arrange to get the stupid goat knocked up.