I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?

We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.

Is it a world in the makingthat turns as it whistles to the depths of my beingIt is burningSuppose it were to appearA bleeding rosary at the windowa sun setting on the marshlands("Silver Clasp")

After a storm comes a calm.

Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

Sometimes, as a team, you win together. Sometimes as a team you lose together.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

April is a promise of what's to come.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.