Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Humor shares an edge with hilarity.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

It used to be said "Build it and they will come, " now it is "Build it and bribe them in".

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

The history of a people are found in its songs.

I was just worried about my nose-job.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.