the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.