He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

You can't prevent World War III. You don't have any juice. In fact, World War III will free you. ... Your time has come.

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.