The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn’t dead yet. I think.

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

We saw the same sunset.

Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.

Fate pulls you in different directions

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.