In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?