Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

There is no difference between the person living in ignorance and the person living in darkness.

When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

I don’t think I’m all that conservative.

Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.