I wondered why the head could move so swiftly while the heart dragged its feet.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

If everything goes right then I can get going.

We'd all like to be taken for what we'd like to be.

For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.