You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.

Housework can kill you if done right.

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters.

Everything that has happened had to happen. Everything that must happen cannot be stopped.