If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

It’s hard for me to talk about love, ' she said. 'I think movies are the way I do that.

The most valuable action to perform when loving someone is to beautifully and silently listen.

You are the greatest achievement of your own life.

Life is a vacation God gives to you!

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

On the ocean of life let your mind be the ship and your heart be the compass.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

When you don't know what to do with yourself, do something for someone else.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.