I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

The less I have, the less I can lose.

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.

Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep yourself alive and refresh ideas that are always going into dead abstraction.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.