What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

I spend most of my time writing.

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.