Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

In life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.