The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can’t own.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
I don’t look like who I am.
It’s tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
I prefer to remain anomalous.
Once the rains abated, my father’s garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.