Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe.

...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want anyone to save me

If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

For as long as I am here, let peace reign

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match here.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.