Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

The word "landmark" is from the old English "landmearc", meaning 'an object in the landscape which, by its conspicuousness, serves as a guide in the direction of one's course.

What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

We as human beings lower our vibration everytime we react with the emotional attachment of what is only suppose to be a lesson through life.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

You can't go through life on "Borrowed light.

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.