Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

Protecting your treasure means to give your life for it.

She had married him in order to be safe from the chaos. He had married her, she now understood, for the same reason. They were the last two people on earth who could make anyone safe from anything.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.