What what, " Trapis said as he hurried over to tend to her, his bare feet slapping on the floor. "What what. Hush hush.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world

We are in a boy recession, " Eugene repeats. "There's been a sudden, drastic decrease in the male population at this school. And I'm gonna take advantage of it.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you're God's frozen people.

When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.