“Have you met thy Lord, my son?Have you been dead before, father?”

“Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.”

“I knew I loved you before I met youI think I dreamed you into lifeI knew I loved you before I met youI have been waiting all my life”

“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.”

“Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.”

“Dear Mother,I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...”