Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where you don't want to. Be your own men; do what you want, and don't hurt anybdoy

How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.

Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.

Don't dim magic because there are non believers, let it shine out of you and they won't know how to look away.

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

When my hair is dyed, I feel like I'm 35 again.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.

If I'm passionate about something, I'll do everything I can to be a part of it.

Do you need help today? Lift up your hands to the Lord in supplication and in expectation, and soon you will lift up your hands in jubilation and celebration.