It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

And when his head slumped forward into his book, she giggled, for she knew that he was hers.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.

I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.

It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.