...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

I've been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54; I didn't even know someone had taken that picture.