I don't know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly rhe same and entirely different every single time you look at it.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Imagination is the dynamic catalyst for every breakthrough.

The phrase ‘Boys will be boys, ’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.

It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.