“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”

“But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live”

“Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?”

“I wondered about Mrs. Winterbottom and what she meant about living a tiny life. If she didn't like all that baking and cleaning and jumping up to get bottles of nail polish remover and sewing hems, why did she do it? Why didn't she tell them to do some of the things themselves? Maybe she was afraid there would be nothing left for her to do. There would be no need for her and she would become invisible and no one would notice.”

“Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit in our lives, we have to have all three”

“The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live?”