Homesickness is nothing … Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. - John Cheever

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.

I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.

We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.