Sam's just dealing with some issues. He recently came to the realization that he's a twenty - year - old virgin prude.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If you push the fear away, the only version of fear available to you will be its crazy, irrational, or contorted version. If you're willing to feel it, and merge with it, its energy and wisdom will...

For me, reading was adventure, but most of all, reading was escape -

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

I think someday you're going to be a great writer,

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

Treat a child as though he is already the person he is capable of becoming. - Haim Ginott

Get used to disappointment.

"And then she got older, and . . ." Lydia shook her head. "Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your...

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe...

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

To be nobody - but - yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop...

I live by the ancient adage that I truly understand today, Fear knocked on the door; love answered, and no one was there. As one of my greatest teachers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once observed, 'They can...

Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

What I said to God through my gasping sobs was something like this: 'Hello, God. How are you? I'm Liz. It's nice to meet you.' That's right - I was speaking to the creator of the universe as though...

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.

I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-à-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well,...

C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.

Daniel, I did not know what I wanted when I was a girl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our...

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

Divine Dichotomy holds that it is possible for two apparently contradictory truths to exist simultaneously in the same space. Now on your planet people find this difficult to accept. They like to have...

A magic realm of timelessness had been inserted into time, an intensity of newness and presentness, of the sort usually devoured by past and future. Suddenly, wonderfully, I found myself exempted from...

Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.

He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

I went to Cambodia to be humbled by the pain of others, and I was humbled down to the ground.

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.