Of course she’s right. How bad are things when your clinically insane mother is more rational than you are?

I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.

Was that you, Pooky Bear?

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

They always always understimate women

The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us, and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

I have decided to tell the world that I accept my homosexuality and celebrate this gift that life has given me.

The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will be of serious consequence to you, When they have made you once ridiculous.