Downstream is always someone else's up.

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

Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

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.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.