The smell of jasmine makes people tell their secrets

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.

Why do you want to fall in love when love is inside you?

Being a one of a kind means we are automatically the best in the world at what we do.

Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That’s what my cousin said and she has loads of boyfriends and snogging-type experiences.

We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.

A consumer is not a moron. She's your wife. Don't insult her intelligence, and don't shock her.

I fall at the feet of those who meditate on the Truest of the True.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

Whether we know it or not, we are all in a quest after the Great Companion. All study, all art, all music, all literature, all government, all industry are in essence a search after the Infinite.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me.