Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Sometimes my own darkness scares me.

You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside one's that don't fit.

The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

I think if the church did what they were supposed to do we wouldn't have anyone sleeping on the streets.