The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves, Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Without discipline you would not go far in life.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.