“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he couldve sworn that was where hed been the past ten years.”

“He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didnt need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel,...”

“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to...”

“[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)”

“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. ...”

“Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.”

“If you can't experience the humanity of people who don't look like you, you're not civilized enough to be an officer of the peace.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.”