“Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.”

“It is our ability to love that makes us most like the Creator…but to love in the face of loss and pain makes us more like God than ever.”

“Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.”

“And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.”

“You love with a fierce courage that I do not understand, and yet I wish that I could have it too.”

“The Giant rested back in his chair. "You've some stories left," he said. " I can smell them on your skin.”

“As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.”