I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar

Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

Food is everything. It provides energy and strength to the elemental self

There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight.

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice and polite.

If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.