“And love is work. But it's the best kind of work there is.”

“Almost everything strange washes up near Miami. ”

“The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".”

“Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I dont wan...”

“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.”

“Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.”