When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.

When you find out there is no ultimate good and evil in which you can place your faith, the world does not fall apart at the seams. It simply means that every decision is more difficult, more critical, because you are creating the good and evil yourself and they are very real.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?' 'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.