You are in recovery if you say you are.

The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

Government is there to do only what the private sector won’t, can’t, or shouldn’t do.

That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Listen, you only tease the ones you love.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret spaces, their own records, their own rules.