You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

We understand more than we know.

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.