Oh no, " I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

I've not actually been on too many dates.

For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.