“Gods, all this maneuvering for moral advantage. You’d think we were married.”

“Willow, if the gods thought half as much of you as you think of yourself, you’d be king of the world.”

“The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.”

“When we assume God to be a guiding principle—well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.”

“And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of.”

“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”

“You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking”

“I'm serious about thinking through all the possibilities before we settle on anything. All things have the advantages of their disadvantages, and vice versa.”