“Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.”

“And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”

“But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.”

“A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.”

“We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.”

“When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being.”