“Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”

“Where is your mother, Charlie asked.Dead.I’m sorry to hear thatThank you. But she was always dead.”

“Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.”

“You are afraid of hell. But that’s all religion is, really. Fear of a place we’d rather not be, and where there’s no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.”

“We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on”

“Sin is man looking for love in all the wrong places. Reflections of God in creation create wonder, but not the satisfaction we really want.”