I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Jehowah-Jireh is my provider, redeemer and defender.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

kazehaya-kun has given me a lot of FIRSTS

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

The whole is the false.