What would people think?'Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart.'Oh,' said Grandpa.
He takes a kitchen chair and sits in the yard and all the ducks come around. He holds up the cheese curls in one hand and caramel popcorn in the other and his audience looks up and he tells them a jok...
And then I stand in front of God's Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, 'You had your opportunities, boy. But did you listen? No. You went on heedlesly reading that garbagey magazine...
I used to think that kid might become a preacher. Now I don't see how he's going to stay out of prison. Nobody in this family ever went to prison for sex crimes. He'd be the first."Yes," says Jesus, "...
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you.
The top 1% holds nearly half of the financial wealth, the greatest concentration of wealth of any industrialized nation, more concentrated than at any time since the Depression. In 1980, on average, C...
The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.
In TIME June 7, 2010
If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.
I longed for the pitter-patter of little feet, so I got a dog. It’s cheaper, and you get more feet.
How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?
By God, no matter what Republicans say, the people of this country really do care about each other. We are not a cold people. By God, when John F. Kennedy said, Ask what you can do for your country, h...
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagan...
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
What liberals must conserve is the middle class: the stable family who can afford to enjoy music and theater and take the kids to Europe someday and put money in the collection plate and save for coll...
The teacher was asking her students what their parents did for a living, and Timmy stood up and said, My daddy’s a doctor and my mommy’s a doctor too. And little Sarah stood up and said, My mommy’s an...
The living wander away, we don’t hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.