Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana