Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

life's better with girls. boys need girls.

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

What you don't write is often more important than what you do

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi.

If he [Hugo Chavez] thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.