If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.