Living a fake life is definitely a fulltime job of its own. Why place some unnecessary burdens on your shoulders, when you can actually live freely by being true to yourself?

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk

They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!