Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

Every love story is a ghost story.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Skepticism is not a position; it's a process.

Hollywood has unfortunately become a memory. It's nothing but a sign on the side of a hill.

Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.

That turned-up collar. The jacket that zipped all the way down the front into a nice fitted shape. The white denim that made my untanned skin look like a color.