Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.