She smiled, and his dead heart warmed. One smile would never be enough.

He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.

She tasted like run, root beer, and something wild he couldn’t place, but it didn’t matter. He wanted more. Craved it.

First rule of a pirate’s mate, keep yer eye on yer destination, not yer doom.

If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.

I don't think liberals in the media are really that much different from liberals outside the media.

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.