There is no rain beyond the clouds

I love God and when you get to know Him you find He's a Livin' Doll.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

lying awake beside you, these thoughts run through my head.

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

I don't think I'd have been as good as Bruce was. He was a better JFK than I would have been.

I've worked so hard to keep this family together.

I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

I'm always in Malibu, and I'm a big fan of surfing and stuff. I love the beach. Someday I will live on the beach.

My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.