“Vision sometimes comes in a memory.”

“Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time.”

“We would have visions in those days,a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will dream dreams”

“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”

“That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.”

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”