If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

I am all things, I am not your words. I am defined by me.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

My mother had me sort the eyes

still loved but deprived of grace

I am startled when people are themselves and are not my thoughts of them.

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.