The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.