In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.