Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.

His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.

Commander! Sir! Wake up!"Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he'd respond so he could go back to sleep - until he remembered that he was the commander.

Fitch is on his way. He's coming after he blows up some wizards.

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.

I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.