I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.

But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

Never give advice to your children unless you have it in writing and notarized.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.