His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

Maybe love isn’t meant to be bliss never-ending. Maybe love is unwavering support and befriending.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?