Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

May you walk on sacred-path.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations if they are accepted.

Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.

Breakfast - which I didn't mind skipping; if the eggs had been any runnier and the bacon a little less fatty, I could have raced them against each other around my plate.

You don't disrupt genius at work.

I still love when any editor today says, "it's so cool what you do", or "you inspired me". All these little things make you realize that people are reading your site and that you have an influence.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

I live in a bubble. I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because, well I guess I'm afraid to.