Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

If you go in with a plan to make a point, and you know what your narrative is going to be already, in our mind, it's probably not worth telling.

To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.