When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

She had no God to plead to for mercy or luck. It would be true to say she depended instead on human kindness and painkillers.

... to be forceful was not the same as being powerful and to be gentle was not the same as being fragile...

Afterwards, I will have to tie the trees to bamboo poles so the wind will not determine their shape. A tree cannot be given form by the vagaries of the wind.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

So laying people off is not something I do lightly, it's not something I relish.

A brand not responding on Twitter is like hanging up the phone on customers. With millions watching.

A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

There are three great truths, 1st, That there is a God; 2nd, That He has spoken to us in the Bible; 3rd, That He means what He says.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.