Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

There is much to be said for solitude.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Words matter, words have import.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!

Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, " the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

Let's see if your right foot is as fearless as your mouth.

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

I was young and fearless in those days, but always enjoyed riding at Cartmel. They used to call me 'Cartmellor', probably because I kept coming back on a stretcher.

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.