In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning.

What a privilege to pray?

Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.