“Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.”

“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”

“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”

“Oh—and you need to work on making my opinion more important than Josh’s, too. I know it’s a stretch—he’s your most intimate relationship to date, but when you’re balls deep in my ass, I’d prefer you not be wondering if it counts as a workout.”

“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”

“Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.”

“Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.”