Wherever a mom goes, a prayer has been already there.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Tickles are what power my giggle machine.

Don't let some work to do it for later do it today because some time later will never come.

I know Verona as I do my own body.

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."--"Mr. Z

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)