To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.