“It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.”

“There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it”

“Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.”

“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.”

“I was thinking. What if the world was like one of those Russian nesting dolls? What if we only saw one surface of it, the outside, but there was all kinds of other stuff going on, too? All the time. Underneath. But we just don't see it, even if we're part of it? Even if we're in it? And what if you had a chance to see a different layer, like flipping a channel or something? Would you want to look? Even if what you saw looked like hell? Or worse?”

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him. ”

“..."Kevin is nothing like Kellan," I explained. "He looks like him." "Is that all you're interested in? "Of course you idiot." I smiled and shook my head at her. "You're impossible." "Not at all! I'm just shallow!”