Here's to many more firsts and many more great memories.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.

I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.

For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

You choose sin. You practice sin.

The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.