He's the boy who smokes Marlboro cigarettes and I'm the girl who makes theater puppets. Dreams and ashes—two things in the universe that should never meet because they are opposites, right?

I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

Be eager to explore new discoveries

Your soul has truly important information to share because it sees, hears, feels and knows from a totally expansive perspective.

Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouchFishes pray for them to fly far away Inland lakes toast to the Pelican’s day

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

You know, when you engage so much with somebody it seems like the subjects never end. You can actually talk forever, and I felt like that with my wife. And at some point we shut up and got married.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.