Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

The roots of shame run deep.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

No action is safe from meaning.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Silence is the small man’s only defense.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

Choose your path or others may choose it for you.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

the heart never grows old.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.