“But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.”

“There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why”

“It came from a different person, a person who had learned how to build a voice from the ruins up, a person who had lost everything and had begun from having worse than nothing.”

“In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.”

“Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first thing about it.”

“…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.”

“A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.”