The hair was magnificent, as was her dress. And the lovely color of it all…. It was too much – too much to handle.

It is rather difficult to describe Kate’s voice: one reviewer described it as “angelic,” which, though cliché, is a fine word.

He arrived at the elevator just in time to see her toss a long black lock away from her brown eyes. Not her.

In the dictionary, next to the definition of prolific, there ought to be a picture of Bill Mallonee.

If anyone can create a perfect blend of passion, humanity, truth, and gentleness, it’s David Wilcox.

After some time – he did not know the hour – he felt that he was awake, that his feet were upon a sidewalk. A dream, he thought. Yes, a dream, certainly – there was, before his eyes, the church building of all things.

‘There is no longer a Christian mind. There is still, of course, a Christian ethic, a Christian practice, and a Christian spirituality. But as a thinking being, the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization.’

Forget imagining stories; I’d live them, live them like Kerouac did, and write about them later. A road trip journal, full of my thoughts and the people I met and the places I broke down, yes, and it would be my best story ever, because it really happened.