And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.