We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Want to know the best part of being a warlord?' came a hoarse whisper.I bit my lip, puzzled by the question.Keir’s mouth curled up slowly into a smile. 'I always get what I want.

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.