Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.