What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

Imagination is probably the most remarkable thing that exist in the universe.

Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.

A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.

100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

My sparrow, she flickers and wakes and sings and sings.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.