To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.