“That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.”

“The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?""The New York Yankees," Butch replied.”

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

“I want to bring as much love into the world as I can. Where am I bringing it from? I’m going to bring it up from hell.”

“Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's divine power made manifest in the world.”

“Considering the sense of powerlessness that such a state of affairs would bring about, to have people floating in a pool of mysterious question marks seems like a minor sin.”