“People who tell me there is no God are like a six-year-old boy saying that there is no such thing as passionate love - they just haven't experienced it.”

“People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.”

“Son, if there's on thing I know," and Colin thought about how old people always like to tell you the one thing they know, "it's that there's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”

“Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.”

“God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.”

“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”