The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

The student must be humbled to be trained by the teacher.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

So something had begun, and now she could not stop it. Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. She could leave this place today. She could start a new life somewhere else.

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.

Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night.

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.