What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

Men... be the man of your home.. Love your family and protect your wives... so at the end of the day... it wont matter if you live in a cardboard box... the love between you will always be enough.

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

We're all equal before a wave.

People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.