This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.

The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.

What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.

If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

Be silent, but let your silence become the loudest message of love and compassion.

You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

Creativity means believing you have greatness.