Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

There is no truer friend than your own conscience.

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It's a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

I guess at a certain point you think, well, singing is singing and acting is acting.

Our enemies will respond only to American strength.

No one can take Jesus away from me.... There's no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.