“But women have fortitude beyond that of a man, have an innate sense of trust in spiritual things.”

“The floor slopes slightly down toward the creek like it's thirsty and been trying to get down there ever since the first nail was driven home.”

“If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.”

“One does not have to be a priest to be a man!”

“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”

“Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.”

“Trust, faith,good, bad... none of it matters. All you ever do is what you have to do. Follow your disires, fulfill your needs, escape from pain. That's all there is to it.”