The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.