Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.