I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.