For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

There is nowhere morning does not go.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

People cheat when they are afraid. When there is no cost to being wrong or confessing ignorance, there is no reason to cheat or fake comprehension.

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

We're shadows! of naught - living, dying! for what's not.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Women's football does have its knockers.

I hate using the word coagulant.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

The true value of a big dream is who you must grow into to live that dream.

The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.