They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Loss was a night that never ended.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Not everything you meet twice is the truth. Not everything you hear twice is the fact, and not everything you ponder over and over can help you!

We are programmed to succeed from birth but we deprogram ourselves with beliefs

I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

A moment of insight from God is worth more than a lifetime of experience.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.