Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.

A little bump in the road is just a bump. There's more ahead until you reach your destination.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.