Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.

The Law likes to be argued with. Take away words and where is the Law? Silence always annoys it.

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

…the great thing about literature is that you can imagine

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.