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.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

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

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

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