“We exist within the question of God.”

“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as real as his creator”

“There are no answers, just questions.”

“I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.”

“Oh God, please, I have to, please, just once more; I have to see her again. He marched onwards, his crippled leg dragging behind; his good leg hauling his exhausted body through the kind of pain he didn’t think existed. He reached out, grasped clumps of hope with bloodied hands, and pulled himself onwards.”

“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”

“I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don’t run just because we get sacked a few times.”