I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart.

Finally I reached into my pocket and flipped a quarter. Heads was Phlox, tails was Arthur. It came up heads. I called Arthur.

she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.

You have exactly 10 seconds to change that look of disgusting pity, into one of enormous respect!

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Her dark eyes slid to him. "I can't remember the last time I felt so good in clothes."And he wanted to get her out of them.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.