“the dreams had ceased coming, as they often did, retreating somewhere else for years, until another event of sufficient significance neared, and the patterns of circumstance dragged them to the surface again.”
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event”
“Did those nice church ladies come by again?" He nodded. "I asked them if a man died and then the woman remarried, and then the three of them met in heaven, would it be a sin for them to have a threesome, since they were all married in God's eye. And they decided they were late to be somewhere else.”
“Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again! ”
“When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.”
“Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!”