A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

....and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home, " to hear someone you love call your name.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

The dreams that surfaced upon meeting up with him again winked out of existence, stars darkening for good.

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

He does not have to know us so well, but He chooses to.

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.