“American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World”

“Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.”

“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.”

“The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.”

“What is the Truth? It is that ugly thing so many want buried hidden away from our loved ones hidden away from the world yet is powerful enough to raise its head and break through the chains of denial we build to hold it in place.”

“In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?”