Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

Reach with all your heart to your divine-dreams.

I know God cares, He knows my every need.

How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

It's a vicious cycle. It's like a washing machine with the lid jammed down. -Christina Kratovac (pg 53)

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.