In ways I don't entirely have the words for an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

I had the constitution of a missionary.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Her passions were narrow but deep.

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

When are we going to stop being afraid to push for change and begin putting into action the things we have discussed for centuries? Mental health cannot wait any longer. Lets get to work!

I wrote my first book in fifth grade. It was about a dog that goes to outer space and is an ambassador for Earth.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

I think cartoons are important. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.