It's rally bad when dads cry.

Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

Anna, " he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant.

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia.

I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.

Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

The lack of financial strength to avail healthcare is a major challenge.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.