Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

The Boss is an honorable man. After the Lord, the most godly person I've ever met.""You've met God?""Certainly. I telephone Him every night.

I'm going to live to be twenty-five, ' she said, 'then die.

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.