Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.