Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.
I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.
We have lived with violence far too long.