Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.

How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel uneasy. I'm reminding you to listen up.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

This ability to exist in pieces is what some adults call resilience. And I suppose in some way it is a kind of resilience, a horrible resilience that makes adults believe children forget trauma.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.