“Marriage is a mystery.”

“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”

“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”

“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”

“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”

“You will open the door to this mystery with the word breath. We will select the word mystery instead of the word eternity because they are all mysterious and always we must breathe this warm and mysterious. The warm and sober breath, the solemn and knowing breath; the lasting breath of satisfaction we have earned in earning our last, so the trickle of moisture that provides mountains with valleys and those with streambeds. I have been told to help you breathe and who am I to point out your previous mastery? There is so little that I can do while we wait to begin this life.”

“The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.”