When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.

Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.