And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

It's amazing how, over time, a person's perspective can be altered.

I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.

Once you've seen a solution to the disease that's tearing you apart, relapsing is never fun.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

I'll protect and expand access to no-copay birth control and safe, legal abortion.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past