Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.

Self-imposed insanely impossible deadlines often help.

That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

I think was able to do a lot of things here.

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.