love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme, " I lied.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

It's so clear to me now: the memorizing of a fake prayer, the symbolization of objects, the struggle to relate to the invisible - I needed a religion. I was lost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

There is a point in most abusive relationships when it occurs to the beaten party that they are guilty of putting their face in the way of someone else's fist.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly.

Children are children.

We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

People in communion liberate each other.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.