The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.