“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”

“Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.”

“This story has a happy ending.”

“Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?”

“Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.”

“If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way.”

“My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.”