Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it... - Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

"A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension."

"You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension."

"It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so."

"I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books."

"I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things."