She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Every family is a family of alligators.

The measurement of human ability is in an infant state. Was it a requirement for the Wright Brothers to hold PhD’s before they could invent and take flight?

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

Show more interest in their story than your own.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

My team is sabotaging me by not letting me sleep in my motorhome.