It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

You ought to live life with great passion.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76, 000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth.

Do not surrender to the one that rules this world, you have the greater One in you

You must try to forget all you have learned, ' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next...

I collect men with interesting names.

Writing is hard work.