Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.

caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.

You bend the nailBut keep hammering becauseHammering makes the world

God’s standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

We pray everyday. We read the bible everyday, so everybody's happy.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.