Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

You don't have to be a doctor to know when a relationship is not healthy.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem