I gave them all the truth and none of the honesty.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

..."vers libre, " (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a new school of architecture.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?"As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Bill Blankschaen is an emerging new voice in Christian life.

Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.