The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.