Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

When we reside in Gratitude, it is impossible to simultaneously feel like a victim.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

You can make Jesus however you want. I think it's beautiful that there is no specific type, you can imagine whatever you want.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.