“It seemed the heavens themselves conspired to cover up our crime.”

“How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.”

“Megan’s deception is another hook on which I can hang my conscience.”

“All that I was and the world that was mine are gone forever.”

“We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

“We see now that the whole cause of our trouble is that people do not base their lives upon God. They have set themselves up as gods, and the gods are fighting one another, and life has been chaos”