Zapped while zipping.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Just knowing that you are there and you would be thinking about me while I am thinking about you makes my heart feel serene and contented.

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

One advances by standing on the shoulders of giants, but the ultimate goal is to find one's own vision.

Pups think rules are suggestions.

Each must drain His share of pleasure, share of pain.