OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE" "And what's that?" "A SHARP EDGE.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.