Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.

Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.

Parenting has no guide book

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

I definitely don't do stomach, because nobody wants to see that.

Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.