Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

Don’t a man has serf esteem, it’s only woman who is sign of dignity, don’t man have their own?

The fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children's teeth are set on edge.

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Once you start making money you have to put things into perspective.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.