It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.