The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

…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.