Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.

at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

Well, if you’re a real alcoholic, then where are you stashing it? That's what real alcoholics do, right? Hide bottles?

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

Everyone contributes something different to the mind, body and spirit.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.