It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

Dreaming is beautiful but actions makes it a reality that unfolds its true beauty.

Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.

All men are brothers in the night.

Grandma sees these things when she talks about them and gestures with her hands like she's painting brush strokes in the air. The way Grandma paints her dreams for me, there's a low sky.

What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.

Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.