Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.