Notable Quotes from Selected Chapters
- A Search for a Name: “Based on what I was given, and what I did with it, I would say I was a poor investment, but God never gave up on me.”
- Introduction: “I could have been a contender ….. well, not really”
- Plight of the Narrator:“Standing on the shoulders of giants, I still couldn't see”
- Beginnings:“It all had to start someplace, or did it?”
- Searches: “Seek, and ye shall find, except I didn't know what I was looking for
- The Age of Brahman: “As a man believes, so he is, (Proverbs) but I wasn't sure what to believe”
- Visitations of the Astral Planet: “Fumbling with the yardstick of reality”
- Three E-Z Payments (Plus S & H):“Coming of age without any answers”
- Meditations of the Iroquois: “Living in fear of my own destiny”
- In My Father's House: “Looking for a kingdom not of this world”
- Industrial Cities of a By‑Gone Age: “A sadness lost in dilapidated abandonment”
- Children of the Adult World: “We thought we were boys drinking like men, but we were merely men drinking as boys”
- A Love Story: “Where a young man's love lay not in his heart, but in his eyes, and a little bit in his stomach”
- Children of the Adult World, Part 2: ”When I was a child, I thought as a child, but now I've put away childish things. Evidently not.”
- My Brother's Keeper: “Is it I, Lord? I was really hoping it wasn't me, but I had a sinking feeling it was.”
- Outcasts under the Neon Sky:“Venturing into the sub-human netherworld”
- Paranoid Fears from the Darker Side:“And even though I felt I could hold my own by day, I was terrified nightly through dreams”
- Coincidence or Destiny?: “I am the captain of my soul, unfortunately I'm temporally shipwrecked right now.”
- At the Foot of Mt. Rushmore: “We hold these truths to be self evident, it's just that hardly anybody else does”
- A Whirlwind Drive through a Moonlight Hell: “The tragedy of the whole situation was not that I was here, but that I couldn't think of a better place to be.”
- Trailer Vision: 2000: “These are where the poor people live, I explained to the visitor from overseas. There are no poor people in America, she told me.”
- Revelations of the Prophet: “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.” Oh no, now I'm in for it.
- Gospel in Three Acts: “Once I perceived the Holy Breath, but I couldn't get it back”
- Messianic Vision: "Then in my vision I saw a door open in heaven and heard the same voice speaking to me, the voice like a trumpet, saying, 'Come up here: I will show you what is to come in the future'. With that, the Spirit possessed me and I saw a throne standing in heaven, and the One who was sitting on the throne..." (Rev.4:1-3).
- Twin Circle Casanova: “Of all the discount stores in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. “
- Deep into the Witch's Coven: “Like unsuspecting prey, I ventured into the Den of the Sorceress”
- The Blasphemers: “All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men- I'm not really sure what that means, but I know it's not good.”
- 14 Dark Castles: “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. II Corinthians 12:2
- In the Realm of Human Beings: “If I ever get to ask God a question, it would be: What in the world were you thinking of? Like so many things, I guess it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.”
- Innocence, Deferred: “I expected life to make sense as I got older, but it was pretty much the same.”
- At the Movies: “On the screen, the movies made life seem so much more real than it actually was”
- 1957,68: “Something built in the past is now present in the future.”
- The Friendly Conversation: “What is Truth? I guess if you have to ask, you can't know”