Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.