A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.