“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

“The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.”

“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”

“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Bei...”