For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That’s because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It’s everything that I am.

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

Through that windshield I saw a city that didn’t know it was hungry and a reflection of a guy who was FREE.

The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.

Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.

You ought to pray for strength to endure every circumstance.

Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly.

When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity.

We can worship God imperfectly, but we cannot worship him insincerely.

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.