The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

Because if I fell any deeper for the way his eyes crinkled with his smile or his habit of tapping on his nose to emphasize a point, my ship would be sunk.

What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that— like he was running out of time.

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.

He looked so frustrated and perfectly serious, and yet here we were talking about his missing seal pelt.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

From the way his face lit with curiosity to the slight tilt of his jaw, even the lingering scent of brine and breeze gave him away.

The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we’d left unsaid driving us apart.

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

At the end, [Eva Braun] begged me to spare these letters [to Adolf Hitler] and bury them. She specifically wrote to me and told me over the phone not to read any of the letters, she made me promise.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.

For all true love is grounded on esteem.