"And so it was that on a particular day, some time later, she followed a star until it came to settle above an orphanage, and in that place was a crib, and in that crib, a child. A child with too much hair. She said, 'This child is mine from the Lord.'" Genesis, p. 11

"Seven seals? I had not yet reached Revelation in my directed reading, and I thought he meant some Old Testament amphibians I had overlooked. I spent weeks trying to find them, in case they came up as a quiz question." Genesis, p. 12

"As long as I have known them, my mother has gone to bed at four, and my father has got up at five. That was nice in a way because it meant that I could come down in the middle of the night and not be lonely. Quite often, we'd have...