The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of.

Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

The world is full of unused corners.

The fact is, the contest has always been invulnerability, and even when you win, you still lose.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.

You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.

I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie?

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

I usually think in terms of music

Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.