“The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.”

“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”

“In our deepest longings we hear echoes of God's longing for us. And the more we can follow these deep-down desires, those that God places within us for our happiness, the more joyful we will find ourselves.”

“style is not skin deep, it is soul deep. It is our most significant form of expression. It is how we communicate who we are to the world around us - it is our voice.”

“Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.”

“I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.”