She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

There is no one else - there's never been anyone else but you. You're it Maddie.

Success can't be forced.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

If I wanted to be president, and if I were ever serious about it, the biggest thing I would have going for me is that I'm a conservative.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

After a year of transformation Foster's Group sits at the doorstep of a period of sustained strong earnings growth.