But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

- David James Duncan

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it …

- David James Duncan

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

- David James Duncan

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multi…

- David James Duncan

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

- David James Duncan

Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignora…

- David James Duncan

Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve…

- David James Duncan

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left t…

- David James Duncan

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for som…

- David James Duncan