“Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking.”
“It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.”
“You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary”
“A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...”