“The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.”

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

“Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.”

“To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”

“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”