I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.

...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.

It is a fundamental misperception, " Fouts says to me, "to think human life has more value than any other life form.

Life is a travel through time.

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.

Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe’s belly.

Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

These are the days that must happen to you.