In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Sorrow can be a bully.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

keep love in your heart. A life without is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead ...

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.