“He marveled at the indifference of the world, the way it kept on, despite everything.”

“Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.”

“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.”

“All of it remained, a constant reminder: He existed, then he didn't. The world spins on, indifferent to the mess.”

“A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.”

“I started wondering if God really existed. The world seemed too empty and lonely for there to be a God in it. But I figured he must exist because I kept blaming everything on him.”