I closed my eyes, tried to get as far away from myself as I could.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?

It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

My body is weird. I can't drink strong drinks. I can't even drink cough medicine - I used to cry when my mom forced me. I don't drink alcohol.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.