I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.

How could I pretend to be a victim when I was so willing to sin?

Maybe I still haven't become me. I don't know how you tell for sure when you finally have.

You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.

You can’t cheat if there are no rules

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.

The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.