“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”

“It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in thisworld. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom andtrust to act in one's own life. John Indermark”

“it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.”

“He’s like my best friend. And I say that only because I have no real friends, and Cap’n is a great listener (he never interrupts when I’m talking—and I’m always the one doing all the talking). The day he does respond to me will probably be the best day of my life, because it means my walls are finally padded.”

“One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.”

“...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.”