Withholding a decision is a decision.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to believe that it should be, and then to do all I could to bring it to pass, whatever the cost.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.