Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Here's Iraq, where irrigation was invented, where law was invented, where writing was invented. All these things that we consider necessities of civilization started there. And the people who live there damn well know that.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.