We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Wisdom is indispensable in the fulfillment of purpose".

Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves.

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.