Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I was brought up in a community, in a family that valued such things as good manners, and I still do.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.