Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

Think before you speak. Spend less than what you make. And whatever happens, try to make the best of what's going on.

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

The same words come from each mouth differently.

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.