From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.