But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

There's just so much to live for.

The answer to most prayers is no.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.

You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry."I'm hungry for other things besides what I have, " [Clover] argued.

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Brew it local

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

When in trouble, take a bath and wash your hair.