“There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

“I keep going;I keep writing because I know something good will happen, and I want to see it when it happens.”

“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.”

“Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.”

“I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.”