“There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.”

“There are a lot of things in this world to be afraid of, but a dead body isn't one of them.”

“There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.”

“I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.”