There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

[Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.