It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

First of all, most poems aren’t memorable; in fact, they make no impression at all. Sorry, but it’s true. There are brave blurbs on the back cover (“writes with a lyrical luminosity that reconceptualizes experience with cognitive beauty”) but you open up the goods and they’re like condoms on the beach, evidence that somebody was here once and had an experience but not of great interest to the passerby.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.