Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Humans want peace, not war. But, sometimes war is needed to establish peace!

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin

You do what you are

Highs must be followed by lows.

In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.