In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.