The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.