“Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.”

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”

“I gave you life. You’re wasting it.”

“Ah,' said the journalist, 'so the entire thing is your own invention. I thought it was true because you gave the name of the street.' I did not dare tell him that the naming of streets is not much of a feat.”

“Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you know what it is called and then all the light goes out of it...Once we knew the name of it, how could we ever come to love it?...For things had true natures, and they hid behind false names, beneath the skin we gave them.”

“Life is not worth living unless you live it for the One who gave you life.”