“We want playmates we can own”

“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?”

“design is so important because chaos is so hard”

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underpriviledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime, but I have a great vocabulary.”

“We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”

“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”

“Fates are woven not by gods, but by the choices of humans--their greed and jealousies, their loves and courage...Fate is but one moment the gods extend to us, a test for us, but it is the choices we make that take us to that fate, or away. And so I will forge my own life!”