That's the thing about faith. It works.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Most of it was nuts, but I was determined to be a drummer as soon as I left school.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.