“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes up...”

“To oppose something is to maintain it.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This...”

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”