Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Cooking is always very romantic!

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

You can't choose between Love and Friendship. They're like a package: You either get both or you lose both

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.