There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

We write to share our thoughts and our lives.

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

If the heartbeat is a vital sign of physical health, anger is the vital sign of emotional health. Anger protects the self in all relationships. It is rage that is damaging.

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.