...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

What do your parents know, about surviving?

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.

The best dreams are the ones you are awake for.

You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

It's very difficult to censor anything anymore.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.