I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

Globalisation Means the whole world, not just some of us.

Well, " I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?""I do.""And why is that, Cole?" I say, tipping toward him so that our noses nearly brush."Well, " he says with a smile, "the weather's quite nice.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-

Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.

We don't have to fix anything.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence