You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

When certain seeds are planted, they nearly always grow.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

... When editors were flattered, they would sometimes give in on some of their mad ideas.

The last good time always comes.

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.