“Kindness, Ive discovered, is everything in life.”

“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.”

“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”

“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also car...”

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”

“I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creat...”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”