It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

It's love. But it's a different kind, ""Doesn't make it any less love, though.

We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.

But when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

We're each other's questions, aren't we? The question that never gets an answer.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

Living is deeper than just life

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.

Win back America for God.