The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

She... tried to ignore what Aeron's presence did to her. What both of them did to her. Especially when they were watching her with barely concealed hunger. ...

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Six bucks and my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.