It’s scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician.
All that comes above the surface [of the globe] lies within the province of Geography; all that comes below that surface lies inside the realm of Geology. The surface of the earth is that which, so to speak, divides them and at the same time 'binds t...
Della Bea Robinson: [talking about Ray's drug problem] You have got to stop this now because there is something you love more then me... Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea... Della Bea Robinson: ...there is something you love more then me, the chil...
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness
I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die....
We're all scared. Might as well be scared together.
My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me.
We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.
What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?
Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.
...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.
A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.
Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.
My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that I was going to be a plumber when I grew up.
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
