Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.