I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.
I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.
I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.
In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
... a man could build whatever monuments he wanted in the worlds of politics, sports, entertainment, and business, but if they come at the expense of his children, then he has failed. Once the attention fades and the crowds stop cheering his name and...
According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to , organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide. For the teleologist an organism exists because it was made for the ...
The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but al...
We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any prov...
I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever the motherfuck it was and he was trying to get apes to draw these pictures, to make pictures like the kinds of p...
I was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought. For some reason that sentence came fully formed into my head just then, temporarily blotting ...
This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years t...
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no re...
Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached in his pocket and grabbed a pack of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds which were his favorites, and he lit one up. He was dressed all in black; black s...
I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.
