The time on either side of now stands fast.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Some men and women aren't looking for money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. They simply want to watch the world burn.

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones.

I don't know how, but I know Who

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.