If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.