when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It’s a holiday that’s as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center’s Mexican food pavilion.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.

I like to joke that Inhofe is as far left as I'll go for an employer.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.