Thus went my first Court Day. I think i'm going to puke.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand, from the spine of their collective strength.

The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful.

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.

I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

I've always been pretty tough in that way, where if you tell me I can't do something, I will prove you wrong.