I am afraid of everybody else's secrets

Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...

I think that we all drown, in one way or another.

We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.

In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die.

A strange thing has happened as I've aged

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it.

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen...It's good for your health and should be applied liberally.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.