There were more ways to live than the ones given by one's superiors

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

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.

One plus one equals both.

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.