I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.