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

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.

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?

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

Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity

There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

To stop thought it's necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.

If somebody praises you; change the topic!

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.