“Race don’t come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won’t catch them making off with the feast.”
― Small Mercies
― Small Mercies
“The most common one-liner in the Bible is, "Do not be afraid." Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
― Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”
― Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
― Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
“Antibiotics’ll clear it up.’ ‘They tend not to work with drink taken.’ ‘They’re drugs, they’re not fucking Irishmen.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“things will never be as good as we hoped or as bad as we feared.”
― Lessons
― Lessons
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