The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128

Nothing was ever normal again.Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don’t you?

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

We may kill each other someday.

Cease distracting your mind of things with little substance.

All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

I like my job but it's not who I am.