“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

“I wish we could stop using the word belief in matters of fact, leaving it where it belongs, in matters of religious faith and secular hope. I believe we'd avoid a lot of unnecessary pain if...”

“What it made me think about above all is how incredibly much we learn from our birthday to last day - from where the horsies live to the origin of the stars. How rich we are in knowledge, an...”