Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

When a man begins to do that which is assigned to him, it becomes as if he is more endowed and favoured than his fellows.

A half-blood of the eldest dogs...

There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.