You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, 'This is what salvation must be like after a while.' But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.