A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.