… I don't know what to say.'‘That’s okay. Sometimes talking is like singing in a storm.’‘Like when you’re scared?’‘Exactly.’‘Or when you’re sad?’‘That too. A voice can be reassuring.

We know so little about what goes on in another person’s head.

Childless people are always expected to explain themselves, although it would never occur to anyone to ask a woman why she became a mother (and to insist on getting good reasons)

It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Things never are as bad as they seem.

My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.

If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love.

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.