I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.