Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.