The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Books are a stairway to knowledge

Without poetry, love has no exuberance.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.

You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.