“Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.”
“The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished.”
“Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.”
“The United States does nothing about the gross morbid obesity, and nothing about the gross morbid stupidity, of its citizens.”
“If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.”
“I would traverse not once more, but often the hell of my inner being. One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.”