I loved my mother too, ' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.

There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.