It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

I am so, so alive.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

You only live once this time around ... have no fear, take every chance, live, laugh, love.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...)

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.

I was a total dork in high school.