It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

I have never resisted the lord in my life, and I never will. But I'm not so hungry for dialogue with him that I have to make up his part as well as my own.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship.