Patience and love can do anything.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.

I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.