Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.