If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.

I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.