In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.

We are all migrants through time.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

Your body gets old but your mind can always accept that.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement