I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

I really do not make deals.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the greatest problem confronting mankind at this time and that it has reached the level of a state of emergency.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.

A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.

The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.