He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

I never said most of the things I said.

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.