But words are more powerful than anything.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble.

I am going to love you now, slow and sweet.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.