The nature of God's plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought.

The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up.

Do you know what Hell is? ...No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

Maybe it is like Pascal's Wager, but I want to believe in the immortality of the soul because consciousness is such a fantastic gift that is feels cruel and unfair to end it so quickly.

Natural law has decreed it so. Isn't death as much a part of the flow as life? Why fight it? Because maybe the flow splashes into a bottomless pit past that blind turn.

I'm far from perfect- maybe beautifully flawed- but I don't lie

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Together we can save America itself.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

When I was fifteen or eighteen, I never even imagined I would be in a band, let alone being able to travel to places like Australia and New Zealand.