It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.