“But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”

“God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.”

“Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. ”

“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.”

“Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.”

“So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark”

“…praise any word that can hold you. Praise all but the vanishing point where we stand now, not quite parted. Already memories fall like blows. But soon they will be treasure, dropped like gold through a miser’s fingers as he makes his accounts…Praise each insomniac hour, kept wide awake by your glow. Sleep would only have robbed more coins from this vandal hoarded store.”