I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

We cannot talk people into accepting the future if they haven’t been there

Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life

The reason the Road Hole at St. Andrews is the most difficult par 4 in the world is that it was designed as a par 6.

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.