Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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.

In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.