“All you need do, Bernie,she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, is present the truth as fiction.”

“And yet Curts a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, thats all.”

“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and hell never write again. Thats our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, youre married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who cou...”

“The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain is your own Chicago triggerman, Dillinger. After him they kind of lost hold on keeping whos...”

“Hes America in action opposed to quality.”

“But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.”

“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”

“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”

“Down on my knees again. Worship isnt enough.Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlies. Im going to like this, he murmured. Daily services. Hourly services.”

“Down on my knees again. Worship isn’t enough.”Peter leaned forward and rubbed his forehead against Charlie’s. “I’m going to like this,” he murmured. “Daily services. Hourly services.”