“I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.”

“I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.”

“The store was closed so I went home and hugged what I own.”

“My hero finally found me in that too-high tower, rescued me from it's cold walls, set me down among free men and bolted.Freedom, with all it's possibilities, just feels cold and lonely. I want to go back to my tower. I need those walls. I need the protection.The walls were always my true plus-one. ”

“and I wonder does everyone else live this way a succession of tests a triumphant success each time I'm still intact at the end of the day”

“I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.”

“I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.”