Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

Just your smile can touch the moon.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

I was always cutting words. I even would write my jokes in my notebook. I still do this, almost like a poem.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.