Beware the autumn people

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

Sorrow looks back worry looks around faith looks up.

It's called Valentine's Day, you moron. If you're going to date a human, Dankmar, you need to remember their holidays.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

A critic once characterized baseball as six minutes of action crammed into two-and-one-half hours.