You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .