Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

There is nowhere morning does not go.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

I had never been to second base.

It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.