We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Every object holds a story.

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)

Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!

Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.