The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.

I thought you had forgotten me.”“I have spent my life remembering you.

1, 320 seconds walk into the room before he does.

Think, talk, and walk like you matter.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important.

God plays pranks and directs.

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.