Friendship is a mirror, so that nothing can be hidden.

Loving someone who doesn't love you back is like hugging a cactus. The tighter you hold on, the more it's going to hurt.

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet.

You and I are more than friends. We're like a really small gang.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.