Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity.

Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

I don't like looking back.

It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.