I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

I am but a pawn on the chessboard of life!

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

You are freaking me out!" she said with a nervous laugh. "Who are you, and what have you done with Quinn Shaughnessy?

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits.

I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.

Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!