“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

“…I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”

“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment – we are all defined by something we can’t change.”