When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.