“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

“Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.”

“woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.”

“Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God”

“That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being "important" and having "special purpose." Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me. I was not what was commonly called a believer then, and I am a believer now; I believe in God, and I believe in the "special purpose" of certain events or specific things.”