Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

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 prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.