Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Money is not as good as power, but power is as good as money.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.