The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

What a privilege to pray?

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

Prediction is a low form of journalism.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

I did not get a million-dollar or multimillion-dollar loan from my dad.

I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream.