Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne.

Your greatest contribution in this world is not what you have but who you are.

I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

When I first got to St. Louis, I saw the arch and I said, 'I want to go to that McDonalds.

Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.