It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.

...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.

I can hear the songs of your eyes, I can feel the warmth of your glowing cheek, and I can get lost in the smile of your soul.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.