It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

I know gymnastics. It's always been a subjective appreciation.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

The first dish pleaseth all.

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.