You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

There is a little good in all evil.

Internet friends are real friends

With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.