we become the stories we tell ourselves

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Health is never going to go out of fashion.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me." -Hatsuharu

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.