When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Every situation is a spiritual journey.

When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

[On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.