Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.