We are shaped by what we're saturated in, which is why incarnation must always be paired with devotion.

I would rather devote myself to what I always did - trying to heal people. That is my way of healing myself.

...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

...writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...

...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved.