Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them - and then you destroy yourself.

I ran away from my house when I was about 12 years old to audition for a film.

Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, The Things They Carried, has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.