“My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.”

“Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise.”

“The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?”

“Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person whos willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they ca...”

“A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.”

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a t...”