Women earn less than men because they are women.

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.

Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as a bigger challenge than making the most of yourself.

Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.