“What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth”

“Hard work and perseverance trumps talent most of the time. Talent plus hard work? Virtually unstoppable.”

“Stupid arguments and the desire to be right -- that's what drives people apart -- that or death.”

“And for the first time he understood. What temptation meant. It stood before him, made flesh and wit and intellect and desire, making its simple offer of everything, unstoppable and consuming for all it's unconditional generosity.”

“Christian desire is always excessive, generous beyond what is asked. It is a desire not to consume the other, but to let the other be in the perfection they are called to grow into. It is a desire ultimately founded upon God as triune and, as triune, a community of love fore-given and given lavishly.”

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”