Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she’s had a very sad life.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I’ve undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family’s, and my country’s past, holding in my hands these truths:...

That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.