"You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may <i> think </i> there is, but once you get there, when you're … - J. D. Salinger

"when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."

The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer — you don't get the prayer at all, you just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.