“I knew Jo would remember the evening as a success, though the details that created it would escape her.”

“I wanted to tell them that the reason they get hounded by their women is because they truly care about the world we live in, that they're the dispensers of the details that keep us human.”

“Was is paranoia? Exaggeration? A lie? This happens almost daily. This is why you call another mother when something happens, good or bad, because you have to tell someone, even if they disagree with you, and this makes your reaction real.”

“It is the journey, and if you don't stop to enjoy the little treats along the way you will go insane.”

“It was God's intention for the prick to be a tireless population-building tool.”

“Every war and every conflict between human beings has happened because of some disagreement about names. It is such an unnecessary foolishness, because just beyond the arguing there is a long table of companionship set and waiting for us to sit down. What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall and a lot different on this other one, but it is still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these time-and-space personalities, from a light, and when we praise, we are pouring them back in.”

“Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”