“There is nothing worse than a proud stoic. -- The Big Why”

“But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.”

“It came from a different person, a person who had learned how to build a voice from the ruins up, a person who had lost everything and had begun from having worse than nothing.”

“whenever Treadway was emotionally tired, he went to bed even earlier than usual, using sleep like a kind of temporary, convenient death.”

“There's nothing worse than falling in love with impossibility.”

“In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammed was 'Read.”

“Right is right, even if you're alone.”