I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.

Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest.

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

I am the scent that he will follow always, hunting for God.

Summer is the mother of the poor.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

The moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.