Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.

the beauty of doing nothing

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emotional individualism is reflected back to the world. There is no choice more intensely personal after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.