bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Our security is assured by our perseverance and by our sure belief in the success of liberty.

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

I am the Avatar of this Age!

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.