Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Angel: And what will you do with the world, once it is yours?' N. Hob: 'Punish it, for not loving me.