When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.