... at thirty-two she had less dating experience than the average high school student.

Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

The way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes. [The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.]

Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.