Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.