I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

The last thing he wanted was to see the bright, shining, happy faces of the other angels up there.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

Kissing is something that makes up for a whole lot of the other crap you have to put up with in school, and as a teenager in general

If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it

The book is what we have come to expect from Marion: challenging, subtle and nuanced analyses, dassling formulations, . . a provocative and original philosophical genius.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.