“Its strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelieva...”

“Sometimes belief is the reason for liberation; other times, our own conviction prevents our escape. It depends on whether or not you believe God is listening, if you can cling to hope in the graves...”

“I could almost see fairies skipping on top of the snake-tongue flamesbrief moments of clarity overcome by suffocating normalcy. It occurred to me that everything is believable during a glimpse, and...”

“I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of peoples minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes swe...”

“The journey was a surreal dream. This world was about knowing the person youd always wanted to be and setting your foot down to it, remembering the person youd thought you were as a child and rejoi...”

“Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of ourselves. The stories weve never told. Some African tribes believe if you were to tell so...”

“In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. ...”

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”

“When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been eng...”

“I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I said or did would change his opinion of me. I never found his pleasantries irksome, partly, no doubt...”

“But when we sit together, close, said Bernard, we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”

“You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.”

“The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.”

“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”

“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”