Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?""Redemption, " Shane says.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

To realize your dreams, you must first take action towards those dreams.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Let your works climb the stars; but you yourself stay on the ground!

you [priests] are called 'another Christ.'

If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.