Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.

I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision — plus it's a lot of fun to read.

If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.