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The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

Good things come to us just when we need them the most, like an angel throwing us a life-preserver before we go under the waters of despair.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.

Sleepless

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition

If you use magic outside the school, we are going to get into more trouble than ever. I’m still not allowed to eat sweets after the last trouble we got into. They will lock us up and there will be no sweets and no adventuring ever again.

Mikolay and Julia Meet the Fairies

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of savage rites, linked us mysteriously to the most ancient secrets of man and of earth, not forbidding us, however, a secular explanation of facts and ...

Memoirs of Hadrian

Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Rest is the ultimate humiliation because in order to rest, we must admit we are not necessary, that the world can get along without us, that God's work does not depend on us.

Messy Spirituality: God's Annoying Love for Imperfect People

Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!

The Mandarin and Other Stories

Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.

Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World

Most of the soil we walk on once grew and breathed, and once it had the shape of the living, long ago. One day someone who doesn’t remember us will walk on our skin and flesh and bones, on the dust that remains of us.

Memory of Water

A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture

Broccoli, it’s what’s for breakfast. This morning let us make love like we’re both still asleep. I’ll hit the snooze if you find the lube.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and...

The Lovely Bones

Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter’s lacrosse game.

Love Walked Among Us: Learning to Love Like Jesus

I just mean that if we go through this thing and it changes us so much, you have to hope that it changes us for the better, right? If goodness can’t come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

Love Is the Higher Law

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

Let Us Compare Mythologies