“When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal is to get as many people into heaven as possible.”

“In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way tried to make as many people miserable as possible.”

“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”

“Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.”

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”