It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

Down there the nights are bright and nobody believes in the Devil.

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Because fear kills everything, " Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

I always used to read aloud to her in the evenings--

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

All writers are insane!

When it comes to love we are primates breaking stickswhile pointing to our hearts.

Keep Calm and Bend Over

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Pitching in the Olympic Games, Pan Am Games and Central American games prepared me to pitch at the big-league level.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

I think every album serves as a step in your career.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.