Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Not every book is for every reader.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

Every day is filled with spectacular moments. Seek them!

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.