I was seduced by the idea that even in the dark, we are still as complex and detailed as we are in the light.

When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just have to keep loving through it. Maybe that’s the cure.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.