“In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.”

“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”

“She liked reality shows the best, and then the shows that purported to be about reality.”

“You'll only realize the worth of something when you'll have it no more in your life !”

“The reader is the final arbiter.”

“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic—in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn’t draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn’t do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system—learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention—may radically transform one’s life.”

“Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath--and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.”