The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, "Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Necessity is a mother.

I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

Don't ever be honest about who you are—and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.

Sister Simplicitie! Sing, sing a song to me,-- Sing me to sleep! Some legend low and long, Slow as the summer song Of the dull Deep.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!

A flock of blessings light upon thy back