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

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

…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.

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

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.