If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.

You're my change of skin/ my summer-winter-fall/ I spring to follow you/ this loss is beautiful

If you just can’t get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you’d be envious of you.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

I am always on the women's side.

Any tool that helps instill God's Word in the lives of people is something I can enthusiastically endorse!

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.