I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.