After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.