“And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when youre gasping for air, when youre begging for pain,when youre missing something, unable to change the channel.”

“I havent felt the full weightof the world on my shoulders,and I havent experienceda fraction of the painand embarrassment Ive put out into this great bigwhite world.”

“I think of drug dealers like I think of my father never really there when you want them to be.”

“In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.”

“I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds.”

“You grow bored of these shrines, and you abandon thembecause you know for a fact that you will worshipanything you kneel before.Like God.Like cock.Like porcelain.”

“I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.”

“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask...”

“God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, dont try to kill your appetite for pleasure. I...”

“A wise person strives to reach self-transcendence by engaging in delicate contemplation, while avoiding the snare of self-denigrations negative invocation. An overshadowing sense of a caustic self ...”

“An attraction to self-discovery and self-expression can be uplifting and assist us combat epic boredom. The toll of writing truthfully as possible can cause the writer to spiral emotionally out of ...”

“If you dont walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”