Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.