She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.

Yet she also longed for moments when she might be weak, when she need not prove anything to anyone.

How can anyone truthfully claim to love someone when they’re not prepared to share everything with that person, including their past?

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

Eyes and ears are not the problem... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

Love is the most valuable gift that you can give to anyone from your heart.

I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.

We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.

I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.