“As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.”

“A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.”

“Now listen. Faith is like oxygen. It keeps you afloat at all times. Sometimes you need it. Sometimes you dont. but when you do need it you better be practiced at having faith, otherwise it wont wor...”

“For six days I didnt get up except to make a cup of tea, or fry an egg, or lie in the skinny bath gazing at a cracked ceiling. The days punished me with their slowness, piling up the hours on me, s...”

“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Id found him not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids t...”

“I could have run after him. I could have asked politely for some clarification. But I didnt I knew what I preferred, and that wasI didnt want to know. Rather, I wanted to believe.”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lu...”