Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages...

See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms.

...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

Don't tawch meh matherfawker!

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

There are inconsistencies in Donald Trump's ideology.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

It was a pleasure to burn.

If you don't do the choosing, life will choose for you, and it may not be the choice you want.

That desire to reach further is also where I ended my memoir, in 1994 in California, perhaps ironically, looking out to the Pacific and back to Asia, toward the not-yet-written.