They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.

There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.

Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

Kisses could lie as well as words.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

What we did and who we were are just dregs compared to who we are now and how we act when the sword is coming down.

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

What I am looking for is a certain grace.