The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

You know what Sunday is, it's a day with a lot of potential for naps.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Sometimes you get tempted to make something wonderful even better but in doing so you lose what was so wonderful to begin with.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Life is a stage, that we all have to go through!

We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.

Beauty is our business.

There is only one question: / how to love this world.

I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is'.