Freedom is a public library.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

No change, no chance.

Perhaps all science is merely self-investigation.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.