One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.