If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

I am, I cried. I am, I said. And I am lost.

When you do Jiu Jitsu, you won't look at a bigger guy and say 'oh no', you'll look and say 'how interesting!'

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.