The worst thing about religion was religious people.

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

The time has to be right and the heart willing.

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.