In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

True Christians are those who carry out Christ's doctrine in their lives.

People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.

Say what you know.

I was a teacher once.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

She wants me to take out Patton.” Barron’s brows draw together. “Take out? As in transform him?” “No,” I say. “As in take out to dinner. She thinks we’d make a good couple.

Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV anymore, you just go on Youtube.