life hurts a lot more than death

You can't worry about the future so much that you miss out on the present.

Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.

Pray daily to be used by God, sacrifice personal needs and so greed has to go out of the window. Because you have to believe God can take care of you so you don't have to worry about that.

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.