It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.