You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.