I was a coward. I went to the war.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

God took his chosen people and we are what's left. He looked at what's left and thought: I could kill you all, but let's see what happens. A little social experiment.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.