We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

I knew every raindrop by its name.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

What is the point of searching for love, when love is nothing but an illusion?

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?

Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Be kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind.