The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.

It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

I am so, so alive.

I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He keeps getting older while I'm not paying attention.

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.

when you don't see anything Good about your Life know that, the best is in your because the good is not in you

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Valar Morghulis - All men must die.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other, but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.