Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

How does "Let go and let God" measure up against Scripture? Remember, the test isn't what sounds deep, what sounds holy, or even what makes sense to us. For the Christian, the test is Scripture.

…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand.