Death persecutes before it executes.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.

yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..

Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico.

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.