We carry our childhood with us.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.

We were both chumps. But you know what? It's not so bad when you're chumps together.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.

It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.

[David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.

New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

I think that life force is invaluable.