It was only in a place like Paris where knowing the books someone loved, whether they followed Lévi-Strauss or Sartre, was the yardstick by which to measure them.

You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

We get most of our energy from complications.

Only monsters could slay monsters.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.

My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

I belong to the tribe of Levi.

Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.