Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

...science and violence turned silence to rage.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.