There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable.

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.