Merrill Benally

“John 14:6 Jesus tells us in His own words, “No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
― Tim LaHaye, Are We Living in the End Times?: Curretn Events Foretold in Scripture... and What They Mean

“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed that uncomfortable partition which is my person! Style, taste, individual philosophy, subjectivity, cultural background, real experience, psychology, talent, tricks of the trade: all the elements that make what I write recognizable as mine seem to me a cage that restricts my possibilities. If I were only a hand, a severed hand that grasps a pen and writes...who would move this hand? The anonymous throng? The spirit of the times? The collective unconscious? I do not know.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. "Enzo"

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. "Enzo”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain