In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

Determination can be a battle or a thrill. Choose to be thrilled.

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?