Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows

Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to use their anxiety to serve the public good.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.