It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Whether they did or didn't, America was certainly safe between 2000 and 2008. I don't remember any terrorist attacks on American soil during that period of time.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance, and in the book as a whole.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.