The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.

Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right.