She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

My golf is woeful, but I will never surrender

Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.