The Bible writers didn't care that they were bunching together sequences some of which were historical, some preposterous, and some downright manipulative. Faithful recording was not their business; faith was.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now.

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.