Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.

There is music the moment you start listening.

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession.

How age enamels us, she would say. It builds up in layers and locks us inside our own skin, stopping us from breaking out, preventing the outside from burrowing in.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.