What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.